Projects – PDRI

Sub-saharan Africa Migration and Forced Displacement Technology, Media, and Big Data Broadcasting Tolerance: Using Radio to Promote Inclusion of Marginalized Groups in Uganda

Latin America & Caribbean Conflict and Security Governance and Institutions Building inclusive political institutions in post-conflict Colombia

Sub-saharan Africa Land Rights and Conservation Burkina Faso – Rural Land Governance

East Asia & Pacific Energy and Environment Governance and Institutions Technology, Media, and Big Data Cambodia Solid Waste Accountability Platform (SWAP)

Latin America & Caribbean Land Rights and Conservation Livelihoods Colombia – Land for Prosperity(LfP)/Amazon Evaluation

Latin America & Caribbean Conflict and Security Governance and Institutions Land Rights and Conservation Colombia Land and Rural Development Program (LRDP)

South Asia Energy and Environment Governance and Institutions Technology, Media, and Big Data Community Governance of Micro-Hydro in Nepal

East Asia & Pacific Health Community In-Alliance for Recovery: Challenging Mental Health Stigma in Rural China

Sub-saharan Africa Conflict and Security Governance and Institutions Community Policing in Uganda

Sub-saharan Africa Conflict and Security Governance and Institutions Livelihoods Migration and Forced Displacement Credit Access for Responsible Extraction: Providing Incentives to Address Exploitation and Externalities in Sierra Leone’s Artisanal Mining Sector

Sub-saharan Africa Energy and Environment Credit and Attention in the Adoption of Profitable Energy Efficient Technologies in Kenya

Europe & Central Asia Gender Equality and Female Empowerment Livelihoods Design of Community-Driven Development Project Monitoring Surveys in Central Asia

Sub-saharan Africa Conflict and Security Migration and Forced Displacement Disrupted Aid, Displaced Lives: Unraveling the Impact of Refugee Funding Cuts through a Regression Discontinuity Study in Uganda

All regions Education Gender Equality and Female Empowerment Governance and Institutions Does the hidden college contribute to a gender gap in academic success?

Sub-saharan Africa Livelihoods Early-Stage Venture Incubation and Mentoring Promote Learning, Scaling, and Profitability among Disadvantaged Entrepreneurs

East Asia & Pacific Governance and Institutions Ethnic Discrimination in Criminal Sentencing in China

Sub-saharan Africa Education Gender Equality and Female Empowerment Governance and Institutions Evaluating scalable approaches to reducing sexual violence towards children in Liberia

Middle East & North Africa Conflict and Security Education Governance and Institutions Expression at the Edge: Student Perspectives on Free Speech Boundaries Amidst the Gaza Crisis

Latin America & Caribbean Sub-saharan Africa Education Health Foundational Cognitive Skills in Developing Countries: Early-life Nutritional, Climatic and Policy Determinants and Impacts on Adolescent Education, Socio-emotional Competencies and Risky Behaviors

Sub-saharan Africa Land Rights and Conservation Livelihoods Ghana – Supporting Deforestation-Free Cocoa in Ghana (SDFC)

Sub-saharan Africa Livelihoods Ghana and the Cˆote d’Ivoire – Resilient Ecosystem and Sustainable Transformation of Rural Economies (RESTORE)

Latin America & Caribbean Conflict and Security Governance and Institutions Guatemala MPP Project

Governance and Institutions Technology, Media, and Big Data Illuminating New Solutions and Programmatic Innovations for Resilient Spaces (INSPIRES)

Health Improving Participation in Vector Control Campaigns

Sub-saharan Africa Health Indlela: Behavioural Insights for Better Health

Sub-saharan Africa Education Gender Equality and Female Empowerment Governance and Institutions Liberia Women Economic Empowerment Project (LWEP)

Sub-saharan Africa Health Mature Adults Cohort of the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH-MAC)

Latin America & Caribbean Energy and Environment Migration and Climate Change

Sub-saharan Africa Land Rights and Conservation Mozambique – Land Tenure Services

Sub-saharan Africa Education Nudges to improve learning and gender parity: Supporting parent engagement and Ghana’s educational response to Covid-19 using mobile phones

Sub-saharan Africa Governance and Institutions On the Welfare Implications of Taxing Corporate Income

Sub-saharan Africa Livelihoods Migration and Forced Displacement Planning for Productive Migration (PPM) in Niger

Latin America & Caribbean Conflict and Security Governance and Institutions Policing Police

South Asia Energy and Environment Health Livelihoods Migration and Forced Displacement Reducing human trafficking vulnerabilities caused by climate change-induced migration in Bangladesh

East Asia & Pacific Education Research for Improving Systems of Education (RISE): Political Economy Research Lead

East Asia & Pacific Governance and Institutions Resiliency Cambodia Impact Evaluation

Middle East & North Africa Conflict and Security Governance and Institutions Livelihoods Migration and Forced Displacement Return Migration: Reducing Barriers and Risks for Social Cohesion in South Sudan

South Asia Livelihoods Satellites and Surveys: Wellbeing and Governance in Indian Slums

Sub-saharan Africa Health Secondary Distribution of HIV Self-Tests: an Innovative Strategy for Promoting Partner Testing and Reducing Risk

East Asia & Pacific South Asia Migration and Forced Displacement Sleepless in Chennai: The Consequences of Increasing Sleep among the Urban Poor

East Asia & Pacific Migration and Forced Displacement Slum Upgrading and Long-Run Urban Development: Evidence from Indonesia

Migration and Forced Displacement Social Cohesion and Forced Displacement: Research at the Frontier

Latin America & Caribbean Education Supporter Les Enfants à la Maison et à l’école (SEME) [Supporting Children at Home and in School]

Sub-saharan Africa Health Surviving an Epidemic: Families and Well – Being, Malawi 1998 – 2020

East Asia & Pacific Europe & Central Asia Sub-saharan Africa Governance and Institutions The Effect of Government Intervention on the Operational Decisions of NGOs: Evidence from Uganda, Cambodia, and Serbia

East Asia & Pacific Education Health The Gansu Survey of Children and Families (GSCF)

Latin America & Caribbean North America Migration and Forced Displacement The Human Impact of Deportation in Guatemala and North Carolina

East Asia & Pacific Livelihoods The Labor Supply Consequences of Having a Boy in China

All regions Conflict and Security Governance and Institutions Technology, Media, and Big Data The Machine Learning for Peace Project

Latin America & Caribbean Energy and Environment The Political Economy of Natural Resource Management in Indigenous Territories

East Asia & Pacific South Asia Governance and Institutions The Wisdom of the Crowd? CSR Design after the 2013 Reform to the India Companies Act (with Christiane Bode)

Latin America & Caribbean Migration and Forced Displacement Transportation and Land Use Across US and Mexican Cities

Sub-saharan Africa Land Rights and Conservation Uganda – Improvement of Land Governance in Uganda (ILGU)

Sub-saharan Africa Land Rights and Conservation Zambia – Community Forest Program (CFP)

Sub-saharan Africa Land Rights and Conservation Zambia – Zambia Eastern Kafue Nature Alliance (EKNA) Data Analytics and Duke University Climate + Health collaboration